Is the $17,000+ bitcoin price breakout benchmark to new price direction
No. The price will fall back below $17k before it can spend more than 5 days above $17k. There is no path for bitcoin to sustain greater than 5 consecutive days above $17k this year. We could possibly see it in 20-30 years when bitcoin is a digital collector's item, but by that time the cheapest Toyota EV will cost over $100k and a starter home will be over $1m.
With that exceptional predictive ability you have, you must be tweeting from your yacht on your way to your private island, right? One of these days, apart from being a big mouth, you could post proof of how you short Bitcoin and make money with it.
In response to the OP, I think this year is going to be one of slight rises, but we are very low and the normal thing is to go up, but we should not be too excited about the slight rise of these days that may be due to pure variability in the short term, there is still a long year ahead....